SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- The Deseret News looked at non-LDS denominations
ahead of last Tuesday's Pioneer Day celebration, discovering that while the
Catholic Church is the second largest in Utah, it was the Congregational
Church that was the second to hold regular services in Utah. The
Congregationalists started holding regular meetings in Salt Lake City in
1865. An accompanying article shows that the Reorganized LDS Church sent
missionaries to Utah in 1863 and by 1870 Jews, Catholics and Episcopalians
were holding regular services in Utah.